"Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
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“The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.”
“If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.”
“Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.”
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“If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.”
“Act without expectation.”
“With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].”